C&C4 Open Beta Opening Up

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The Command & Conquer 4 multiplayer beta test will indeed be open, and it’s happening today. It’s scheduled for 9AM PST, which by my calculations is in about two hours. You’ll want to be keep an eye over here for details.

Oh, and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 multiplayer beta is up too. Grab those keys where you can. We haven’t got any, obviously, because why would we want them? Eh? EH? But our chums over at Fileplay have some, so keep an eye on them too.

Thanks for the heads up. Not sure if gamespot requires you to be a paying member or not? I signed up anyway. Having played all the other C&C games I guess I have to play this one. Tiberian Sun is still my fav, if for no other reason than the fact you got to build gates!, electric gates! it was a Turtler’s Heaven!

No worries you don’t have to be a paying member. Tiberian Sun was my favourite too and probably the last one in the series I enjoyed. Still, those gates and walls were one of the main reasons for my love. C&C at it’s best.

I also miss Dave the Tosser, this being the first post without him. Maybe he isn’t required for every post… but please, don’t retire him completely. We were just starting to get a sense of him, as a person, in the last article. I think it would be unfortunate if we were to be robbed of the opportunity to witness his growth and development didn’t get to see that wonderful/horrible amalgam of every ones faces.

I didn’t find the latest C&C games very good (go Tiberian Sun! ;D), so I’m not very interested in that one.

The BFBC2 Beta I am interested in however – since I preordered it recently, and I’ve got a key! And it was just made ready for download three minute ago! But as I suspected, their site is overloaded with traffic and I will probably be unable to play tonight. GJ, EA. I’ll go see if there are any other ways of downloading the client…

Wow fantastic, fileplay just crashes the minute before I could get a key…probably all taken now, or hopefully it crashes for everyone. Why do pc users need a beta key but console gamers get the demo today no matter what for Bad Company 2?

Gah! It appears that any site that might be hosting the Beta client download is overloaded with traffic. Wow. If i could just get the client over Steam or a link to the torrent file, this would be all solved…

EDIT: I snooped it up on FilePlanet, even their site is sluggish! Probably cause I’m not the only one rushing there.

*sigh* 30 minutes of wait for an american donwload server. At least It’s just a 1,5 gig client.

I noticed that too. I followed this link link to blogs.battlefield.ea.com and thought aha there she be. But no… all the download links are bull. I have tried 5 now and none actually take you to the file!

I GOT A KEY FOR BFBC2!!!!!! Just keep refreshing till you get through…I got through to the request key page….then refreshed constantly for a couple minutes, and got through to the actual key….now I am free to get on with my life today, I’ll try downloading later, I’m just glad I got the key.

The site is getting heavily hammered at the mo, but we are working hard to try and keep it up! If you manage to get through the download page, then you will be fine, as the mirrors are not the machines experiencing the load at the moment! There are so many people trying to get this lol, its quite insane. Keep trying! We are trying to bring even more machines on as I type this.

thanks, the torrent seems to be working great for me, at the current speed(200kB/s) it’ll be done in a couple hours. Just enough time to get rest of the important stuff of the day done so I’ll be free to play this as long as I want. Assuming it runs well on my pc…

I got a key for the Bad Company 2 beta, and I tried it out. I wasn’t terribly impressed. As someone said earlier, it feels like a PC version of a sequel to a console shooter. It also has major lag issues and crashes at the server browser. Yes, I know, it’s a beta, and all that good stuff. My main problem with it is that it runs rather poorly on my decently powerful rig (E8400, GTX 260, both overclocked) and the bloom has been dialed up to 11.

Yeah, I’ve got a big rig too, but I have to play on low/medium to get rid of the lag. DICE/EA is apparently “aware” of that issue. Server browser is broken, don’t bother using it ^^
And yes, it does feel a bit too “consoley” and “casual/arcade” for my taste. No prone stance is kinda bull if you ask me (I mean, seriously, the sniper rifles have deployed bipods, but you can’t use them?) :/
Gameplay is kind of a mix of TF2 and BF2 (with less silliness ofc :P).

But hopefully it will grow on me, considering I’ve already pre-booked. We’ll see.

Hopefully people will give the CNC4 beta a fair shake – it’s pretty different for us at the EALA RTS group, almost to the point of being the diametric opposite of RA3, and I’m actually surprised by how much fun we’ve managed to shake out of the thing over the last few months.

It’s also pretty much the last hurrah for this particular development team, so I hope people take the time to give it a look.